Delegate Shack portrait peeling render

peeling render

It would have lived in the smoko area

post-1880s weatherboard construction marking a step up from the slab huts that preceded them

designed by architect George Sydney Jones and opened in 1903 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for male patients

catching dust in the still air

Delegate Shack portrait peeling renderA weatherboard cottage on the outskirts of Delegate, corrugated iron roof striped with rust, its front verandah half consumed by encroaching shrubs. Delegate sits at the southern edge of the Monaro, Ngarigo country, one of the earliest European settled corners of New South Wales. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.